Bertvan wrote:
[...]> Brian:> > But according to my reading, deterministic> >materialism is not a particularly popular view among scientists in> >general....> > ...It is heartening that you believe deterministic materialism is> losing it's hold over science...

I *think* that Brian was referring to the indeterminacy of quantum
mechanics. Deterministic materialism has indeed lost its hold, but
materialism certainly has not. Vitalism is dead, at least in the
scientific community.